Lesley Manville Quotes

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'

Lesley Manville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 12, 1956

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I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Jill Wagner

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I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

Robert Quine

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Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.

Alvaro Morata

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As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower.

Sonia Rykiel

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I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.

Rita Rudner

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My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.

Michael Keaton

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I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

Lisa Lutz

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Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.

Javier Bardem

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I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.

Dionne Bromfield

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Deidre Hall

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People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

Bonnie McKee

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I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

Willow Shields

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